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The Gabriel Bertrand Prize

FESTEM is very proud to honour the memory of the great French scientist Gabriel Bertrand, who actually created the term “trace elements”, with the attribution of the “Gabriel Bertrand Prize” to outstanding scientists in the field of trace element and mineral research. The prize is generously sponsored by the French company, “Labcatal”, a leading pharmaceutical company in the field of trace elements therapeutics.
An independent scientific committee had first to nominate the scientists and was finally selecting one of them per emission.

Laureates of the Gabriel Bertrand Prize
The winners of this prize were

  • Prof. Dr. T.C. Stadtman, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda
    on the occasion of the 1st FESTEM Symposium 2001 in Venice/Italy.
  • Prof. Dr. B. Lönnerdal, University of California in Davis,
    on the occasion of the 2nd FESTEM Symposium 2004 in Munich/Germany.
  • Prof. Dr. P. Brätter, em. professor at the Technical University of Berlin and em. head of the department "Trace Elements in Health and Nutrition at the Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin, on the occasion of the 3rd FESTEM Symposium 2007 in Santiago de Compostella/Spain.
  • Prov. Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, Professor in process, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director of Redox Medicine, Medicine, Brigham And Women's Hospital, on the occasion of the 4th FESTEM Symposium 2010 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

It is planned to award the Gabriel Bertrand Prize also in Avignon/France on occasion of the 5th FESTEM symposium


Gabriel Bertrand  -  A life devoted to trace elements!

Gabriel Bertrand (*1867   † 1962) was a French chemist and biologist.

  • 1886-1889 Scholar of Frémy
  • 1889-1890 Preparator in the Laboratory of Plant Physiology and applied Agriculture
  • 1890-1897 Chancellor in museum of history of nature museum
  • 1894 Award for experimental physiology from the academy of sciences
  • 1900-1962   Introduction of Biochemistry at the Pasteur-Institute: scientific
    highlights:  finding of oxydases, role of manganese in nature; importance of trace elements, nature of enzymes and mode of enzymatic   reaction
  • 1903 Co-founder of the Pasteur-Institute letter
  • 1905-1936 Successor of E. Duclaux as professor in biochemistry in the faculty of nature in Paris.
  • 1909-1936 Member of various ministerial commissions (hygiene, education, national defense, agriculture and industry).
  • 1914-1918 Support of the industry for national defense
  • 1923 President of the French chemical society
  • 1934 Member of the scientific advisory board of the Pasteur Institute
    Official retirement, uses his time now solely his investigations at the Pasteur Institute
  • 1962 Deceased in Paris.